Midwives Mr. Amess To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many midwives were employed in the NHS in (a) 1997 and (b) 2002, broken down by health authority. [130955] Mr. Hutton The information requested is shown in the table. The 1997 health authority data has been mapped into strategic health authority (SHA) area. SHAs were introduced in 2001. ---------------------------------------------------------- |SHA | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Norfolk,Suffolk and Cambridgeshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Essex | ---------------------------------------------------------- |South Yorkshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Trent | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Shropshire and Staffordshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Birmingham and The Black Country | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Coventry, Warwickshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire| ---------------------------------------------------------- |North West London | ---------------------------------------------------------- |North Central London | ---------------------------------------------------------- |North East London | ---------------------------------------------------------- |South East London | ---------------------------------------------------------- |South West London | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Northumberland, Tyne and Wear | ---------------------------------------------------------- |County Durham and Tees Valley | ---------------------------------------------------------- |North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |West Yorkshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Cumbria and Lancashire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Greater Manchester | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Cheshire and Merseyside | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Thames Valley | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Hampshire and Isle of Wight | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Kent and Medway | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Surrey and Sussex | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire | ---------------------------------------------------------- |South West Peninsula | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Dorset and Somerset | ---------------------------------------------------------- |Special health authorities and other statutory bodies | ---------------------------------------------------------- |England | ----------------------------------------------------------